2 Thessalonians 2:12
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of God, for that God hath chosen you firstfruits unto salvation, in sanctification of the spirit, and faith of the truth:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In Context
11That all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but have consented to iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.
Psalms 50:16But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth ?
Hosea 7:3They have made the king glad with their wickedness: and the princes with their lies.
Mark 14:11Who hearing it were glad; and they promised him they would give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
John 3:19And this is the judgment: because the light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.
Romans 1:32Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13
Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →